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Title III
Strengthening Institutions Program

Time/Effort/Progress Report
April 2005
 

Accomplishment

Action Required to Meet Objective

Personnel

Outcome

Migration of Datatel software from the old RISC system to a new P-Series Server

Order, receive and set up new server. Test migration.

Laquita Nelson
Eddie Gooch
Nathan Tyler
Marilyn Radford
Charlie Bowden
Alan Kelley

Successful migration completed on April 1 st

Completed Datatel consulting with Financial Aid office

Coordination of Financial Aid Department, IT Department and Datatel Consultants

Wayne Tosh
Laquita Nelson
Eddie Gooch
Deborah Byrd

Implementation of a more automated Financial Aid office

First Class server installed and licenses purchased

Order, receive and set up new server. Negotiate purchase of licenses

Laquita Nelson
Eddie Gooch
Alan Kelley

1,275 FirstClass licenses purchased. (275 more than required in the grant proposal)

Customization of History textbook

Coordination between History redesign team members, Social Science Division Chair and publishing company representatives

History redesign team members,
Kenny Anderson
Randy Cox
Dr. Beck

Customized textbook that contains only material relevant to course objectives, arranged by "theme"

Customization of English textbook

Coordination between English redesign team members, Humanities division chair and publishing representatives

English redesign team members,
Dr. Harry Moore
Randy Cox
Dr. Beck

Customized textbook based on survey conducted among the English Dept

Webanor for Liquid Matrix dealing with Communications

Coordinate employee schedules with Webanor times offered

Nikki House
Marilyn Radford
Jo Carwile
Wayne Tosh
Eddie Gooch
Nathan Tyler

No decision made

Instructional Technology Specialist met with course redesign teams

Coordination between IT Specialist and redesign team members and Academic Component Director

Math, History, English and Biology Course Redesign Team members,
Bill Stephens
Randy Cox

A better understanding of the IT and faculty needs

Course Redesign Team Interim

Progress meeting

Set meeting time, secure location, send email invitations to all leadership, course redesign and internal evaluation team members

Jimmy Duke
Michael Kinney
Latrica Birgan
Gene Barnett
Emily Whittier
Steve Calatrello
Bill Stephens
Randy Cox
Dena Stephenson
Tammy Kerby
Theresa Hamilton

Meeting was held on April 21 st .

Classroom Performance Software Demonstration

Coordination with publishing company. Set meeting time, secure location, send email invitations to all leadership and course redesign members

Jimmy Duke
Dena Stephenson
Bill Stephens
Theresa Hamilton
Eddie Gooch
Gene Barnett
Carol Chenault

McGraw-Hill

demonstration was held on April 20 th .

Noel Levitz Survey results received and reviewed

Completion of survey by students

Wayne Tosh
Dena Stephenson

Comparison of Spring 2005 data to Spring 2003 data

Meeting with College's Standardization Committee

Coordination of meeting.

Discussion of technology needs related to Title III.

Discussion of options in "Student Response Systems".

Randy Cox, College's Standardization Committee

Committee was briefed on redesign efforts to date and possible impact / equipment and infrastructure needs for the future. Decision was made to pilot two Turning Point systems and one Personal Response System during summer semester.

Online Demonstration / workshop by Late Nite Labs for use of online Chemistry labs

Coordination with Late Nite Lab representative

Randy Cox,
two chemistry instructors and one lab assistant

Demonstration was held on April 18 th .

Tegrity and IP/TV consulting

Coordination of consulting group

Jimmy Duke
IT staff

Scheduled IP/TV demonstration in May

Datatel consulting for E-Commerce for web advisor

Schedule Consulting

Datatel
IT staff
Business Office

Decision of purchase E-Commerce

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